Wheel and wheel fitment



Fatented Nov. 14, 1922.

EDWARD BRICE KILLEN, 0F LONDON, ENGLAN'D.

WHEEL AN-D WHEEL FITMENT.

`Application led September 15,

certain new and usefu Improvements in or Relating to Wheels and Wheel Fitments, of

whichthe following is a specification.

rlhis invention relates to wheels ofa somewhat similar type to those described in my previous specification No. 297149, and may be constructed interchangeable, reversible and divisible.

In my previous specification the wheel vproper was constructed from two plain dishlike stampings or plates, which I called the front and back dishlike stampings of the wheel, but said dishlike stampings were not constructed alike, whereas in this invention the frontend back stampings are constructed exactly alike and are bolted together back to back to form the divisible wheel.

In order that my invention may be properly understood and readily carried into effeet, I have hereunto appended drawings, of which- Figure 1 shows the application of the invention to' the construction. of a simple disc wheel.

' Figure 2 shows a method of attaching the wheel to a hub shell or Iitment.

Figure 3 shows the attachment `of the additional face stampings to a simple disc wheel. l p l Figure 4 shows a method of constructing distance or packing pieces to increase the thickness of the wheel centrally if re uired..

Figure 5 shows an alternative met od of fitting distance or packing pieces between the two main dishlike stampings.

Eachront andback main metal stamping 1 has a truly circular rim part 2. The

' metal, after forming the bed circumference,

runs outward and may vform a hooking iiange v3 at the stampings extreme overhanging edge, see Figures 1, 2, 3 and 5 enabling say an inflated or 4'rubber tyre or wood felloe, as wanted, to be clamped, hooked and keyed in position at the wheels circumference: but the metal in eachstamping after being say bolted together back to back on the wheels centre line 4 at about an inch from the wheels rim runs toward the wheels centre and isV suitably stamped with a dishlike cavity 15 which I will call the central boss cavity of each stamping. This central boss cavity 5 is coniaie. serial No. 323,954.

structed capable of having a distance piece of wood 6, or its equivalent, keyed within it, which wood strengthens the wheels part, and when the two main metal stampings 1 are fitted together-back to back the wood in each boss cavity may meet on the centre line of wheel i, formin a strong and solid driving central part 8 in the divisible wheel, see Figures 1, 2 and 3.' The central cavity 5 formed in each main metalv stamping is stamped to suit the special work for which the wheel is wanted, see lFigures 1., 2, 3 and 5.

In addition to the main iront and back dishlike stampings l, I may if required use two additional face stampings 9 or their equivalent, which I call the front and back face parts of, the wheel see Figure Each front and back face part 9Wwhenused, is suitably attached or keyed to each front and back main dish like stamping 1, without interfering with the divisibility of the wheel on its @entre line et, Figures 3 and 5, and the frontend back face parts 9, or their equivalents, whenv used, may give extra strength to the divisible wheel by supportingthe right and left overhanging circumference parts 10 of the wheel, see Figure 3.

The right and left halves of the divisible width and strength to the wheel centrally.

These suitable distance pieces may be constructed from metal 11 vor 12 see Figure 2,

or from suitable stampiiigs 15 having wood- 14 keyed withintheni, see Figure e, and may be suitably riveted or attached to the central boss part of the wheel to give the required width or strength at. the central part of the wheel, to suit many lvarying types of hubs or hub tments without interfering with the divisibility of the wheel on its centre line 4,

or with its reversibility and interchange-ability, or its clamping circumference.

In my divisible wheel suitable hoes 15 in Stampings 1, see Figures 1 and 2, or 16 in stampings P see- Figure 3, may be perforated in said stampings to give the Wheel a light appearance and facilitate its divisibility, and any type of'suitable distance piece of Wood or other suitable material or materials 17, may be used and fitted at the central part of the Wheel between the two main dishlike stampings 1 see Figure 5.

In this invention the Wheel and its {itments may be constructed in all suitable dimensions and of suitable materials.

Claim:

A detachable disc Wheel with a front and back face dishlike stamping manufactured i alike, in which the metal runs unbroken from the Wheels center to its circumference, each stamping having a central boss cavity the two stampings being divisibly attached back to back to form a hooking and cla1nping tire retaininf circumference, and With an inner circum erence which is reversible on vits hub Without changing the Wheels center line and is strengthened by means lof riveted central metal plates, and having additional suitable central distance pieces which allow the wheel to be suitably fitted to existing types of hubs or hub shells, substantially as described.

In testimony 'whereof l afiix my .signa ture in presence of two Witnesses.

EDV/TARD BRCE KILLEN.

`Witnesses 'JOHN 'lnAiN Linnnu,

@HN LinnLE. 

